Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design
Elaboration of standards: grids 3
A course by Marta Afonso , Textile Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Elaboration of standards: grids 3
Overview
“In this last part, I will prepare the third stamp using the same tool as Illustrator, but I will add other elements. In addition, you will see how to explore displacement and rotation in this same stamp.”
In this video lesson Marta Afonso addresses the topic: Elaboration of standards: grids 3, which is part of the Domestika online course: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design. Discover manual stamping techniques that bring fabrics to life and create an original digital collection of patterns.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating Patterns: Grids Let's move on to stamp 3. We'll continue on Illustrator, but we'll add more elements. And we're going to explore the direction systems of modules. When we did it by hand, we could only explore offsetting and rotating modules, that is, stamps, on the computer, we can play with scale and reflection. This stamp will be the main one for our pattern. It will draw our attention, not only for its complexity, but also for its size. I'll make a new document, File, New. Again, we choose the option Print. In centimeters, I'll set it at 50 x 50 cm. There you go. I'm going to dr...”
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Course summary for: Block Printing and Digital Pattern Design
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Fashion Design, Pattern Design, Printing, Textile Printing, Traditional illustration

Marta Afonso
A course by Marta Afonso
From an early age, Portuguese designer Marta Afonso was inspired by her grandmother's mastery of thread and needle and grew up fascinated by the textile world and its creative possibilities.
In 2015, Marta decided to combine her background in pattern/dressmaking and lino/woodcutting with her professional experience in graphic design to create Atelier Karaka, a studio specializing in manual fabric stamping, pattern design, and illustration.
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